Prelate’s Chapel

Prelate’s Apartment

by Reverend Sir Knight Terry L. Plemons right eminent grand prelate of the Grand Encampment

The apostle, Paul, expressed to the governor Felix, in the simplest words possible, how the life of a believer should be lived. Acts 24:16, “I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men.”

Have we forgotten the price of our redemption?

Have we forgotten the commands to forgive and to live at peace with all men, including the needy among us? Jesus on the cross did not forget. In fact while in immeasurable agony, at the point of death, he called out to God, “Father forgive them.” He made provision for his mother by calling upon one of his disciples. He gave compassion to a dying thief. He, with his last breath, gave redemption to man.

We cannot have a clear conscience before God when we hate others. We are people of “The Way” a term applied to the believers of the early Church.

We worship God in spirit and in truth. We accept His holy word, using it to purge our hearts and souls of all things that are not of Him. We persevere in all the difficulties of life, remembering that the God of the mountain is also the

God of the valley. We are faithful in “alms giving and offerings,” remembering to feed the hungry, cloth the naked, and bind up the wounds of the afflicted, not just those with physical wounds, but by being the hands, the feet, the tears, and the compassion of Jesus to all who are hurting emotionally and spiritually.

My prayer today is that we learn to live lives in joyful obedience to the

Lord. We aim to be recognized as Christians by our earnest love for one another, like Christ, to become servants, serving each other with our gifts and resources. We bind ourselves together in true Christian love to share in each other’s joys and to help carry each other’s burdens. We encourage each other in truth, being slow to anger and quick to forgive, devoting ourselves to continual prayer for and with one another.

I love each and everyone one of you and there is not a thing you can do to change that.

6 march 2022